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Helix High School quarterback Tyler Buchner runs a passing drill at a football clinic. (Courtesy Sports Illustrated)

Football recruitment in COVID era

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Despite being denied a chance to don a Scotties jersey this year and lead Helix Charter in a championship season, quarterback Surf & Soul Spot’s Southern takeout is perfect for COVID-era dining. Page 13

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players in the country. The senior has already committed to play for Notre Dame and is on track to complete his high school SEE HELIX FOOTBALL, Page 3

Plan for community oversight, auditor of police moves forward

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Tyler Buchner is still having a fantastic 2020.

In August, Buchner made the Sports Illustrated All-American team, coming in at No. 55 of the magazine’s top 99 high school

La Mesa City Council voted 3-2 in favor of creating a citizens police oversight board and hiring an independent police auditor in a city council meeting on Oct. 13.

The two Council members who voted against the ordinance in its second reading, Kristine Alessio and Bill Baber, were worried that without holding an official “Meet and Confer” with the Police Officer’s Association (POA), the city could be hit with a lawsuit.

Vice Mayor Dr. Akilah Weber made the motion to

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approve the ordinance as is and stated that if the POA wishes to continue a casual dialogue on the ordinance they can, but not in the elongated process required by a meet and confer.

She pointed out there was a representative of the POA on the task force that created the ordinance and in the three weeks since the ordinance passed its first reading, the POA could have asked questions or asked for specific changes in the ordinance. Instead, she said

The La Mesa Historical Society’s popular annual home tour event will be held as a virtual event this year due to precautions over the coronavirus pandemic.

The 15th annual Home Tour will be held on Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to noon on the Historical Society’s Facebook page. The event, which normally highlights local homes with interesting historical or architectural features, will this year feature highlights from the tour’s 14 previous years and will be narrated byLa Mesa resident and local historian James Newland.

The program will include a brief history of the La Mesa Historical Society’s Home Tour heritage, including a look back at each year’s tour homes along with presentations featuring previous tour homeowners, including updates on the homes today, along with real time Q&A sessions.

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COMMUNITY MEETING ON YOUTH ISSUES The City of La Mesa Community Relations and Veterans Commission along with the Youth Advisory Commission have scheduled a round table discussion event titled “Livable La Mesa: Youth in the Age of COVID-19,” to take place on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.

The goal of the 90 minute virtual LMPD building at City Hall (Photo by Jeff

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curriculum this year and be moved to South Bend, Indiana and start training with the Fighting Irish in January 2021.

The early departure for Buchner means that if pandemic rules loosen enough for high schools in California to have a season in the spring, Helix will be taking the field without its star quarterback who as a junior completed 267 of 402 passes for 4,474 yards, 53 touchdowns and only six interceptions. He also rushed 128 times for 1,610 yards and 28 more scores.

“For me its bitter sweet,” said Helix head football coach Robbie Owens. “I’ve loved the opportunity to work with him and I still hold these minute hopes that something happens that he decides he wants to stay, but in my heart I think I know he’s most likely going to go. I think on paper we have one of the best Helix teams that I’ve had since I’ve been here. Losing Tyler, obviously, is a big hit to that. He’s a tremendous talent.”

Owens describes Buchner as having all the attributes of a great quarterback: 6 feet 2 inches tall, 200 pounds, rifle arm and he is quick on his feet. Buchner is also a smart student with over a 4.0 GPA and has great leadership skills, attitude and work ethic on and off the field, Owens said.

“His future is very bright,” he added. “He’s in that top echelon of guys that have ever come out of San Diego.”

MISSED SEASON, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES Although Buchner’s future is set in stone with his scholarship to Notre Dame and a future playing Division 1 football at a top-tier university, the postponed — and possibly cancelled — season has still had some negatives for him.

“Tyler is one of the top players in the country, but if you look at his resume as a quarterback, he still has very limited experience as a quarterback,” Owens said, pointing out that Buchner played wide receiver as a freshman and was injured his sophomore year.

The lack of a senior year to follow up his phenomenal junior year is the “only thing questionable on his resume,” according to John Garcia, director of football recruiting for Sports Illustrated.

For Buchner, that means missing the chance at a higher ranking on the SI All-American team or 247Sports list. But for high school players on the cusp of scholarship potential, the missed season means missed opportunities.

“When you look at all the kids that are out there preparing themselves for the next level because they’re going to have scholarship opportunities and to play, they are missing out on this valuable time and ability to improve their craft in whatever position they have,” Owens said.

Garcia agreed.

“There’s definitely going to be some casualties, recruiting casualties, from this pandemic,” he said.

At Helix, some of those casualties could be players such as wide receiver Clay Petry, offensive lineman Shawn Martinez, defensive end Blaze Zito, free safety Domonick Schoop and linebacker Jerry Riggins.

Coach Owens pointed to Riggins, a senior, as an example of a player who could possibly miss out on scholarship opportunities from large schools.

Owens said Riggins is “as good a football player I’ve ever coached.

He’s a kid who would have offers.

“I have coaches who called me last week to say, ‘We really like Jerry, but we really want to see him in person.’ He should already have those offers.”

Normally, Helix attracts recruiters from around 90% of Division 1 schools to visit in the spring and start scoping players, Owens said.

“Colleges are under stricter guidelines, so this is a dead period for them. They haven’t been able to come out since COVID started,” he added.

Compounding the issue for players vying for scholarships are new NCAA rules that allow college seniors to play an extra year. Coaches will have a new set of roster management decisions to make because they may not have to fill as many positions.

“Until the NCAA completely adjusts the scholarship numbers and things like that, it could create a little more hesitation in recruiting this 2021 class,” Garcia said.

Although players like Riggins — those on the cusp in the minds of recruiters — might fall through the cracks because of a lack of in-person evaluations

by Division 1 schools, smaller and local schools could reap the benefits. Recruiters from places like Ohio or Georgia that normally come to poach talent from California aren’t flying and that leaves players with options closer to home, Garcia said. Owens said even a school like USC might skip over players they normally would take and leave SDSU reaping the talent.

Of course, players might still end up at bigger schools by transferring.

“The transfer portal is going to be as busy as ever in the next 18 months,” Garcia said. “Some of those schools that are preparing to play now, Big 10 and 12, we’ve seen a lot of movement just in the last few weeks so I can imagine once it turns over to 2021, you’re going to see a lot more of that once you see this group of kids enroll and begin their college career.”

TECHNOLOGY BRIDGES OPPORTUNITY DISADVANTAGE Using the transfer portal might help get players and schools closer to what might have been in a non-pandemic recruiting season, but it does little to stop some of the inequities faced by players right now.

One of those main inequities is the fact that some states have decided to move ahead with in-person schooling and also allow team sports to continue play. For the players on the cusp in those states, they still have the opportunity to play in front of recruiters or at least still send in game film from this year.

“I do think the states that are playing do have an advantage ... because they are playing games, so teams are getting an opportunity to rank [their] guys,” Owens said. “[Hypothetically,] there’s a linebacker in Texas who will rank higher than Jerry Riggins just because he could play. That’s just the truth of it.”

Faced with not playing in front of recruiters or even being able to share game film, players in states like California that have postponed football have reverted to creative ways to market themselves to schools.

“From the prospects’ perspective, you got to rely on technology. That’s all that’s sort of left. If you’re not in a state that’s playing, you still want to try to showcase that ability any way you can,” Garcia said, adding that he’s seen videos of football players playing other sports to show off their athleticism, even a kid who sent a video of him pulling a truck to highlight his strength. However, there are limits to this kind of video marketing.

“I think it could be good news for smaller colleges that have to use these kinds of resources on a normal basis, but for a kid with those Power 5, D1 dreams, it’s just the hardest its ever been in this era,” Garcia said.

Owens is even more skeptical of recruitment by video.

“The only way you get better at football is you play football,” he said. “You can go out there and practice and you can do seven on seven and have your private coach – you can do all those things – but football is that one sport that you can’t mimic. There’s kids that are filming their drills, sending them out, tweeting them out and doing all that, but it’s not the same.”

Still, getting in front of recruiters virtually is better than not at all. And for players who are depending on a scholarship to help pay for school but are now faced with less opportunity to play in front of coaches, there are additional options like junior college football or post-graduate football programs.

Bottom line, Garcia said: “If you’re good enough, somebody will find you.”

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the POA’s reasons for wanting a meet and confer have remained vague.

“I do have some concerns about how this request for a meet and confer has come up. The request for the meet and confer at the last moment on Sept. 15 makes me question the motives and the lack of transparency,” Dr. Akilah Weber said.

The motion passed with a second from Council member Colin Parent and a deciding vote from Mayor Mark Arapostathis.

Parent said he took the request for a meet and confer seriously, but after reading the memo from the city’s outside counsel he is it was clear to him that the ordinance did not fall under the legal requirements for holding a meet and confer.

The task force appointed by City Council to develop the police oversight ordinance also weighed in on the POA’s request for a meet and confer. In a letter to City Council dated Oct. 6, the task force wrote:

its POA when its ordinance was created.

Before the first motion received a full vote, Alessio introduced a substitute motion to adopt the ordinance as is with a 30-day timeline on a meet and confer. Baber seconded the motion but it failed without a third vote.

The City Council will have significant discretion to select the auditor because qualifications were not included in the bylaws of the ordinance. The auditor will have access to the police department’s files and policies and typically a background in investigative work and law. This means that volunteers from the community on the oversight board will not have to conduct investigations on their own.

Many residents sent in public comments to the meeting in support of approving the measure.

Several also called on Council members not to let the POA further delay the proceedings through an official Meet and Confer.

—Reach contributing editor Kendar Sitton at kendra@sdnews.com.

Workshop shows mixed picture on housing

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“We were deeply dismayed when, just hours before our [Sept.

15] presentation, the La Mesa Police Officers’ Association (POA) legal representatives delivered a letter demanding the initiation of a Meet and Confer. We designed the Community Police Oversight Board (CPOB) so that it would not affect the wages, hours and working conditions of our officers because we did not want to delay the implementation of the oversight board with a Meet and Confer, a process that can take half a year to complete. We ask that you ensure that any discussion with the POA is resolved quickly and is not allowed to delay the critical work of the police oversight board.”

The task force letter criticized the POA for using a stall tactic at a time when “people are angry” and “unprecedented numbers of people are marching on our streets.”

The task force letter urged passage of the ordinance because the oversight board will be of benefit to everyone who lives, works in and visits La Mesa - and that includes police officers.”

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On Oct. 15, the city of La Mesa held a virtual workshop for its upcoming housing element update to the general plan. The update will reflect the city’s needs for housing units based on more recent data. The update is required by law every eight years.

For the eight-year cycle beginning April 15, 2021 and ending in 2029, San Diego County’s Regional Housing Needs Assesment (RHNA) is 171,685 new units. La Mesa’s allocation of that — decided by SANDAG — is 3,797 units.

According to data provided at the workshop, La Mesa is already well on track to more than meet the 3,797 unit goal. Senior Planner Allyson Kinnard said there are 700 units currently under construction or approved for construction; a projected 800 accessory dwelling units (ADUs) will be built by 2029; “expected” projects in the city will bring an estimated 3,300 units; and there are 500 units that were identified in previous cycles that have yet to be developed, totaling 5,300 units the city is prepared to build without any rezoning required.

Whether or not that number of units will be built is not a requirement of the update.

“The update only asks if you are able to meet [the housing goal] by providing sites that are adequately zoned so that housing can occur,” said Veronica Tan, a consultant hired by the city to help with the housing element update. “It is not an obligation to build the units, it’s an obligation to plan for the units – that you have the capacity locally to accommodate the RHNA.”

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Although the workshop showed that the city is well prepared in its zoning to meet its housing requirements, there were some troubling data points on housing.

One is that data shows that La Mesa — and nearly all other cities of its size in the region — has a housing affordability problem.

Currently, 47% of La Mesans are considered “cost-burdened” by housing, meaning they spend over 30% of their income on housing. Another issue of concern is overcrowding. Currently, 4.4% of households in La Mesa are considered overcrowded.

Included in the RHNA are housing goals for different income levels, although there are no provisions to mandate cities to build them. Instead, cities and the state rely on incentive programs and negotiations with developers to get more affordable units built.

For the upcoming eight-year cycle, La Mesa’s income level goals are 859 very low income units; 487 low income units; 577 moderate income units; and 1,874 above moderate income units.

Income level housing is based on a household’s area median income (AMI), with very low being 50% or below AMI; low, 51 to 80% AMI; moderate 80 to 120%

AMI; and above moderate above 120% AMI. As of April 1, 2020, the median income in San Diego is $92,700.

A workshop attendee pointed out that the goal for low income housing is nearly double that of the previous housing element cycle and the city was unable to meet that goal by a wide margin.

“Virtually no jurisdiction in the state does [meet its low income housing goals],” Tan said.

It was also noted that the low income housing goals for the previous cycle were created during the Great Recession and the goals for this upcoming cycle were created during “peak conditions” for production. Tan said that the numbers cannot be altered by law once approved by the state, despite the fact that economic conditions could deteriorate to a worse level than the last recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One area that the city will be able to look at and update ordinances for are homeless shelters.

“Specifically, when it comes to shelter options and housing options for the homeless, for all income and all ability, the city will be updating or amending its SEE HOUSING ELEMENT, Page 16

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Q’Anon threatens to unravel the Californians work to end human trafficking deserve better data protection

By KIM BERRY JONES and DR. JAMIE GATES

Part of an $810 million underground illicit sex economy in San Diego alone, human trafficking is hiding in plain sight in our community. It impacts thousands of people from all ages and backgrounds. At the same time, our mobile phones ping us with notifications throughout our day; we are constantly filtering social media messages, determining what’s important and what we need to ignore. Now a duplicitous and even dangerous string of messages has cropped up: an attempt by Q’Anon sympathizers and supporters to coopt the fight against human trafficking.

The work to end human trafficking in San Diego is a decades-long collaborative effort supported by multi-sector partners who work to identify those who are exploited, provide services to restore victims and track down and prosecute traffickers. A critical part of this effort is public awareness, helping our community understand what human trafficking is, how and where it happens in San Diego and what each one of us can do to end it.

Enter the social media messaging of Q’Anon supporters and promoters, luring people into a web of lies that threatens to distract, mislead, divide and tear apart decades of hard-fought advances in the fight against human trafficking.

While human trafficking is an intractable social issue, it consistently draws bipartisan support with the Trump administration and past administrations funding services and visibility that has done much to advance the cause. Q’Anon’s entrance to the conversation around human trafficking threatens to unravel this critical collaboration across the aisle of political rivalry. Q’Anon, once a fringe phenomenon is now a rapidly spreading set of conspiracy theories flooding social network platforms.

Q’Anon supporters and sympathizers are using people’s passions about the atrocities of human trafficking as bait to lure those sympathetic to the anti-trafficking cause into their broader and more diffuse disinformation campaign. As reported elsewhere, “Marc-André Argentino, a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University who is studying Q’Anon, said he had identified

51 Facebook groups that branded themselves as anti-child trafficking organizations, but which were actually predominantly sharing Q’Anon conspiracies.”

Kristina Davis recently reported on this issue in the San Diego Union Tribune, engaging local Q’Anon inspired rally attendees and noting that experts worry Q’Anon conspiracies are diverting essential attention and resources from the actual fight against child trafficking.

In often subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle ways, Q’Anon proponents and sympathizers confuse the public with misleading human trafficking statistics, misleading characterizations of the nature and scope of human trafficking (sex trafficking in particular) and misleading claims about the fundamental causes and sources of this heinous crime.

Opportunist politicians are blurring the lines between legitimate human trafficking data and concern and the Q’Anon conspiracy morass. In a twisted logic, the concern for human trafficking victims itself becomes a dog whistle for politicians interesting in wooing the votes of Q’Anon sympathizers. The bogus anti-trafficking statistics and stories promoted by Q’Anon are making their way into current political campaigns.

It is incumbent upon those of us that know better to call out the false human trafficking statistics and theories in the mouths of public figures.

The influence of Q’Anonrelated ideologies continue to grow. Recent reports out of the United Kingdom highlight the growth of Q’Anon beyond U.S. shores. Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to prevent Q’Anon and its ideologies from spreading any further, but Facebook, at least, is increasingly losing this battle.

Shutting down the conspiracy pages and hashtags has seemed to cause some of the opposite effect, invigorating the claims that there is a conspiracy against them.

At Point Loma Nazarene University we are more than casual observers of the anti-trafficking movement. A Christian University with a strong commitment to educating and resourcing the community, PLNU and its Center for Justice and Reconciliation have played a central and leading role in studying and engaging against human trafficking

in San Diego County since 2005. The Beauty for Ashes Scholarship for survivors of human trafficking and the kNOw MORE! Anti-trafficking curriculum are critical pieces of the puzzle to prevent exploitation and empower victims to heal. We also coordinate quarterly meetings and annual conferences for researchers of human trafficking. PLNU professor Dr. Jamie Gates, with Dr. Ami Carpenter (USD), co-authored the groundbreaking study measuring sex trafficking in San Diego County in 2016.

In particular, we are deeply troubled by signs of how deep and wide and with what ease Q’Anon is spreading through Christian communities across the U.S. Christians in particular have been on the front lines of the anti-trafficking movement, and people of faith have been a driving force building the current anti-trafficking infrastructure that we have. It has been a hard road bringing light into this darkness, sorting out truth from lies in an industry that is built on lies, intentionally bridging communities that don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye with one another like activists and law enforcement, survivor advocates and the judicial system, people across many faith traditions, Democrats and Republicans. Lies that masquerade as truth have the danger of unravelling decades of carefully nurtured cross-ideological collaborations as they thrive on aggrieved mistrust while they drive people and communities further apart.

Those who are passionate about doing and being good in the world can sometimes fall into acting more out of passion than wisdom. This tendency has not been uncommon in our fight against trafficking, but we have worked hard to educate our communities on the facts, to bring disciplined thinking and discernment to tackling one of the most complicated crimes in our midst.

It is time to mobilize our community to work harder at seeking truth, and to continue the real fight instead of being distracted by the shadows of conspiracy theories.

—Dr. Jamie Gates is a sociology professor at Point Loma Nazarene University and Kim Berry Jones is the Director of the Center for Justice & Reconciliation at Point Loma Nazarene University.

By BRIAN N. SCHRADER

This November will be monumental for Californians. Voters will be tasked with making decisions on a swath of ballot measures addressing a widerange of issues from voting rights restoration and bail reform to changes in consumer privacy law and property tax assessments.

In one of the most important measures, Californians are being given the chance to improve our control over the data that businesses collect on us. California Proposition 24, also known as the Consumer Personal Information Law and Agency Initiative, builds on the recent victories won by the California Consumer Privacy Act in 2018.

That bill, which went into effect in January of this year, was hailed as the most expansive consumer privacy law in the country and a win for consumers. Going beyond all of the praise and hype, it’s important to note what the bill actually did. It shed a light on what kinds of data companies were collecting about us and who it was sold or disclosed to.

It also allowed customers to request that their data be deleted and that companies not collect their data all without fear of discrimination. CCPA was both a landmark achievement and basic common sense. U.S. consumers are so starved for privacy protections that a few simple provisions are considered an incredible success.

This year, Californians have the opportunity to expand those protections, filling in the gaps left out of the CCPA, and give the state government more capacity to enforce its provisions. Proposition 24 would allow customers to tell businesses not to share data about them. It would also allow customers to opt-out of having their sensitive personal information sold or used for advertising, and provide a host of additional protections for minors.

Perhaps most i mpor ta ntly, Proposition 24 would establish a new California Data Protection Agency which would take over administering and enforcing these provisions as well as those in the now active CCPA. This new Data Protection Agency would function kind of like the FDA or other consumer watchdog agencies. Staffed by knowledgable experts in consumer protection and privacy law, it would be in charge of developing regulations, providing guidance to businesses, assessing penalties, and raising public awareness about the dangers of businesses abusing our data. The agency would protect the digital rights of all Californians and SEE DATA PRIVACY, Page 10

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East County suicides down, but goal should be zero

By JASMINE JAUREGUI

Every day, 134 Americans die from suicide. Now, here in California, the annual suicide rate is an estimated 10.81%. California has one of the lowest rates in the U.S. However, should we be proud of that number?

There were 11.3 suicides per 100,000 people in the East County last year. That’s the lowest it has been in many years and down significantly from 2018, when there were 18.5 suicides per 100,000 people. The data is from the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.

We can do more to prevent suicide. The goal should be zero.

Suicides can surge from any small change in context. Time, environment and specific situations can influence suicidal thoughts. If someone is having these thoughts, a good friend or other person may notice subtle changes in behavior and help that person seek resources for mental wellness.

If the person with suicidal thoughts is accompanied by a good friend, they will notice the signs and ask what’s wrong, they will form a supportive and nonbiased environment in which they will comfort them. We can all keep the suicide crisis help line information available in our purse or wallet, to have

it ready when we need to support a friend, or even ourselves.

The San Diego Access and Crisis Line is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 888-724-7240. The service is free and available in multiple languages.

Thanks to organizations like East County Youth Coalition, I feel educated on mental health. I feel that I have some important knowledge on how to approach such a delicate topic like suicide. I know that I have the power to halt suicide, and I know that everyone else does as well. It’s just a matter of taking threats seriously, and helping our loved ones connect with the help they need.

Suicidal people, about 81% of the time, tell someone what they are going to do and when. Through this fact we can conclude that avoiding suicides is just a matter of taking threats seriously. The reason why these warnings go unnoticed is because they are either underestimated, less valued than a relationship, or they are avoided out of fear of not knowing what to say.

People may not see the gravity of things. They think certain suicidal phrases are normal. Suicide notes and messages can be found anywhere nowadays. They are found written in a public restroom. They are sung in popular songs and are

in the most popular slogans. After seeing these threats so often, people begin to think nothing about them.

This contributes to not being able to detect warning signs when they are actually real.

Another reason why people don’t speak up is out of loyalty to the victim. They don’t want to rat them out and have them be angry with them. But what should we prefer: Having a friend who hates us for ratting them out or not having that friend at all?

Sometimes people notice the gravity of situations through warning signs but they don’t speak up out of fear they might say the wrong thing and make it worse. This fear is something understandable, especially when the victim is a loved one. For these reasons we must educate ourselves on how to read warning signs and how to act on them. We can all learn the best ways to support someone who is sharing thoughts of suicide.

We must normalize mental health as a matter of public health and not normalize suicide.

Suicide is real, but is also preventable.

Help is available. Find easy access to mental health and suicide prevention resources by visiting up2sd.org. If you or someone you SEE SUICIDES DOWN, Page 10

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News from your County Supervisor Dianne’s Corner

By DIANNE JACOB New l ibra r ies: The county is breaking ground this fall on a new library in Lakeside, while progress is being made on a new one for Casa de Oro. The Lakeside branch is being built on Woodside Avenue in the heart of the town. Measuring 15,000 square feet, it will be roughly twice as big as the 1960s-era library next to Lindo Lake.

Meanwhile, the county and the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District recently agreed to team up on a new branch facility near Campo Road and the district’s Spring Valley Academy campus. The district has initially agreed to lease the planned site to the county for the construction of a 13,000-square-foot facility.

During my nearly 28 years on the board, I’ve been fortunate to work with the community on the construction of 13 new libraries – in Alpine, Campo, Descanso, Jacumba, Julian, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Pine Valley, Potrero,

Poway, Ramona, Rancho San Diego and Spring Valley.

Supporting small business: My colleagues on the Board of Supervisors recently joined me in approving $4.1 million in federal grants to 254 small businesses in my district. T he businesses included more than 80 restaurants and about 50 salons, barber shops and other personal grooming businesses. Many neighborhood businesses continue to struggle as we all confront a public health crisis with no immediate end. I will continue to do all I can to support them.

At the ready: We’re in the thick of peak wildfire season.

Making sure you’re prepared for a disaster has never been more important.

I can’t say it enough: Put together a go-kit, download the SDEmergency app and sign up for reverse 911 notifications – known as AlertSanDiego — at readysandiego.org.

—Dianne Jacob represents District 2 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

For questions or comments, call 619-531-5522 or email dianne. jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov.

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POLITICS Facing defeat, Trump declares war on American democracy Republican Women hard at work during election countdown Oct. 23 – Nov. 27, 2020

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By SEAN QUINTAL

[Editor’s note: a longer version of this column can be found at lamesacourier.com]

Towards the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln sat around a Virginia campfire with his Union Army’s General, Ulysses S. Grant. With weary hopefulness, Lincoln quoted to Grant this observation from his Secretary of State William Seward: “…there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency.”

As Americans, during times of strain, we seem often to seek out Lincoln as a balm for our jagged psyches. He did, after all, shepherd us through the most cataclysmic of our national crises. Usually though, invoking Lincoln feels a bit overwrought, like going to the ER for a stuffy nose. But in 2020, Americans can be forgiven for looking to the Great Emancipator for comfort.

Because at this moment, we are in the midst of an unprecedented national crisis.

Donald Trump has now made it abundantly clear that he sees next month’s election as a process he is likely to lose. For someone like

Donald Trump, who views relationships as transactional, and for whom domination and humiliation are the true markers of a successful transaction, the only “virtue” that matters is “winning.”

And If winning is your brand, losing is an existential threat.

Faced with his own catastrophic failures as President, and confronted with the fact that his lies, corruption and incompetence have now been exposed to the American people, he realizes that not even an anti-democratic mechanism like the electoral college is likely to save him. So he has desperately chosen to set fire to the very electoral institutions that have endured here longer than in any democracy on the planet.

The President is staring down a humiliating defeat in four weeks.

Since he recognizes he cannot win a fairly contested election, he has set about trying to cast doubt on the electoral process itself, with an eye to invalidating the results, either formally or at least in the perception of his core group of supporters. The incumbent President has lied about voting fraud since the day he was elected. He has repeatedly said illegal voters cost him a popular vote victory. Trump offers no evidence for this because none exists. He tried to empanel a commission to investigate this, but it prematurely disbanded in disgrace, after it became clear it

was nothing more than an exercise in propaganda.

Trump’s incessant belching and barking about voting by mail being a hoax, is laughable, since he has voted by mail for years and has already requested his very own mail-in ballot this year. Years’ worth of data from elections research proves that being struck by lightening is more statistically likely than voter fraud in the U.S. This is further demonstrated by the fact that Trump and the GOP have failed to prove voter fraud even once in 90-some court cases.

Aside from his cratering political popularity, recent revelations have exposed Trump as a fraud and a tax cheat. He is vulnerable to ongoing civil and criminal investigations in multiple jurisdictions. His lawyers’ tortured argument for executive privilege are perhaps his last protection against finally being held accountable for his misdeeds. The law is coming for him. His unhinged recklessness to try to remain in office is understandable, as it offers him his last get-out-ofjail-free card.

America has endured serious threats before and we will again.

Trump’s menace to our democratic institutions is real and ominous.

But fortunately, the American people can stand up to this threat, and can beat it back, as we have so many crises before. Let Trump

threaten and complain all he wants. Because, finally, he does not have the power to wrest from us our democratic birthright. We, all of us, can preserve it.

And we do so by the sacred act of voting, our shared, civic sacrament. Our right to vote has been blessed by the lives of those who have died to preserve it, consecrated by the blood of those who have been beaten to expand it, and sanctified by all those who exercised that right before us, and who have entrusted us to protect it.

This then, is “the virtue in this republic” about which Lincoln mused in the light of that campfire. Our shared understanding that we are not just the beneficiaries of our freedom, but also its stewards. That however large or pernicious our differences may seem, we remain bound together by a history both proud and painful, and united in a future that, though harrowing, is also hopeful.

This virtue is an inheritance that we are duty bound to preserve. Even when it is threatened by the occupant of the highest office in the land — especially when it is so threatened. As divided as we feel as a country right now, together we can once again show the world that there is still enough virtue in this republic to save it.

—Sean Quintal writes on behalf of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club.

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Republican women are turning out in great numbers to volunteer for our local candidates. We are making phone calls, texting and walking the precincts for numerous wonderful Republican candidates who should deservedly win in November. The positive responses that we receive spurs us on and reinforces our optimism for a victorious election result.

It cannot be overstated how important this election is for our communities and country. We either head down the path of socialism and lack of respect for law and order, or we avoid it by voting for conservatives who respect our freedoms and the Constitution.

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Trained and experienced counselors are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day to provide support, referrals, and crisis intervention.

You can also call the Access and Crisis Line if you are concerned about someone, just need to talk, have questions about how to offer support, or if you are looking for information about community resources, mental health referrals, and alcohol and drug support services. If emergency medical care is needed, call 9-1-1 or go to the emergency room of the nearest hospital.

reign in the worst instincts of the corporate surveillance, ad tech, and data brokerage industries. Creating a separate agency also ensures that these issues are given the attention they deserve rather than languishing under other departments not staffed with technology experts who understand the nuances of privacy law and technology.

This measure marks an important step in California’s history as a role-model for the rest of the country. We have the chance to set the standard once again and proclaim our rights in this digital age. With time, other states and the federal government may well follow suit. As Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to say, “so goes California, so goes the nation.”

We desperately need better privacy protections online.

Our private data is vacuumed

—Jasmine Jauregui is a junior at Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley and a member of the East County Youth Coalition.

up from all corners of the internet, bought and sold with reckless abandon, and used to sell ads. I’m a Web developer, so I understand what can be done with this technology and what’s being done today to abuse it. If you had said to a crowd in the early 1990s that within 30 years they’d be under constant, targeted domestic surveillance by companies looking to sell them skin cream and e-cigarettes, you’d have been laughed out of the room. But that’s exactly the world we live in today.

This November, Californians will be asked to vote on probably the most progressive slate of ballot measures in recent California history. With everything up in the air, it’s OK to feel overwhelmed, but we can’t let ourselves get distracted. We have a chance to further cement our rights, and we should take it.

—Brian Schrader is a local business owner, software developer, writer, and San Diego resident living in Normal Heights.

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It will increase taxes by $12 to 15 billion and will destroy jobs.

This measure guts Prop 13, the Howard Jarvis Initiative from 1978, for commercial, retail, industrial and other properties and allows for new taxes on homebased businesses. It would cost jobs and increase prices for the consumer. Tax increases get passed down the line. If this measure passes, you can be assured a companion measure will soon follow to repeal Prop 13 and increase property taxes for homeowners. Your property tax bill will skyrocket!

Another measure that deserves close scrutiny and thought is Proposition 16. The title may sound good: “Allows Diversity as a Factor in Public Employment.”

This proposition would reverse a voter approved Constitutional Amendment passed in 1996. It

says the state cannot discriminate or grant preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education or contracting. If this measure passes race-based preferences such as quotas and affirmative action would be allowed and merit-based criteria would be disregarded. This is a step backwards in the fight against racial injustice and inequality under the law. Preferential treatment is the opposite of what we need.

Vote. It is a privilege and a right so please don’t waste it. Your voice will make a difference.

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Please get the updates and the latest information on our website RWCNavajoCanyon.org and on Facebook at Republican Women of California Navajo Canyon.

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Oct. 23 – Nov. 27, 2020 A&E La Mesa Courier 11 Macabre literature celebrated online at San Diego PoeFest

at Porter Hall on a limited schedule in the month of October.

Our gallery is currently open Tuesday through Saturday from

By LINDA MICHAEL 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and we invite you to stop by to view and enjoy These past many months have the artwork of our local artists. been a challenge for all of us, Currently at the gallery, you including artist members of La can view the Small Image Show Mesa’s Foothills Art Association. which features artwork that can We are all now trying to resume be no larger than 7-by-7 inches. In life’s activities in a safe and addition to the first-place winner healthy way.

“Little Hummer” by Gary Dyak, you will see 64 expressive works by 32 local artists who are members of the Foothills Art Association. The winners of this year’s Small Image Show include: Gary Dyak, Roz Oserin, Carol McClure, Sandra Hayen, and Mike Heffner.

In November, the Foothills Gallery will feat u re the 2020 Wildlife in Art Show, which is one of the association’s most popular shows. We invite you to visit the gallery to enjoy these wonderful displays of creativity by our local artists.

“Little Hummer” by Gary Dyak (Courtesy The Foothills Gallery Foothills Art Association) at Porter Hall is located at 4910 Memorial Drive With safeguards and precau- in La Mesa. For more informationary measures in place in tion, call 619-464-7167. compliance with state and county guidelines and requirements, —Linda Michael writes the Foothills Art Association on behalf of the Foothills Art was able to re-open our gallery Association.

The third annual San Diego PoeFest, will be held this year online, streaming Oct. 23 to Nov. 1.

PoeFest is produced by Write Out Loud in partnership with Save Our Heritage Organisation.

“PoeFest has quickly become a San Diego favorite Halloween adventure. Everybody loves the wonderfully chilling stories of Poe. And there are so many authors to explore that have followed in his footsteps,” said PoeFest artistic director Veronica Murphy. “Virtual is our only option for storytelling now, so we are embracing the challenge of capturing a phantasmic theatrical experience on video. We’ve recreated the atmosphere, filming by candlelight in the Historic Adobe Chapel in Old Town.”

Poe’s poetry, as well as other literature inspired by him, will be performed by local actors Brittney Caldwell, Manny Fernandes, Linda Libby, Brian Mackey, Paul Maley, Sandra Ruiz, Rachael VanWormer, and featuring Travis Rhett Wilson as Edgar Allan Poe. The actors will present six episodes of fully-staged, theatrical performances of short stories of the macabre, including “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “La Llorona” and more.

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If you want to eat at Surf & Soul Spot, the first thing you have to decide is if you want surf or soul.

Next, you have to pick the right day, because surf is on Monday and Tuesday and soul is on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Owners Chef Sarajevo Petty and former Olympian Eagle High School and NFL football player Sergio Bailey joined the College Area/La Mesa neighborhood in December 2019.

They liked both that it is central in San Diego and that they could cook everything in their on-site kitchen.

Chef Sarajevo has had a career in the culinary world working with Hyatt Hotel Corporation on both the east and west coasts of the United States. Sergio, is an extremely successful 20-something, who realizes that you can’t play football forever and you need other plans and goals in life.

“Write your goals Salad down and check them off at the end of the day,” Sergio said.

The restaurant is currently a fast, casual takeout. You can order via phone or walk up and order. The restaurant opens at 11 a.m., noon or 1 p.m. depending on

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the day and closes when they have sold out. Don’t delay in ordering your food; closing can be as early as 4 p.m. on some days. Currently guests wait for their orders outside as they are taking extra precautions during COVID. Sarajevo recommends that the food is eaten directly after pick up so it is hot and fresh. Fans hope that the restaurant will return to a sit-down eatery once the pandemic is over.

If you visit on a surf day you Fried chicken (Photos courtesy Surf & Soul Spot) can expect to see golden fried catfish, crispy cookie crunch banana pudding fried shrimp and cheese or butter pound cake. grits, popcorn shrimp, With the amount of attention a blackened shrimp and they are getting from residents it crab roll and crispy fries will be fun to watch them grow. smothered in smoked turTheir philosophy: Treat everykey gravy and topped with one like gold, including our emwhite cheddar cheese, red pepper ployees and serve great food. ranch, scallions and spicy tomato Surf & Soul Seafood Soul Spot is relish. Prices are moderate rang- located at 7229 El Cajon Blvd. in ing between $8 and $15.

Rolando. For more information, visit surfandsoulspot.com. Call in your order at 619-439-8801.

—Robin Dohrn-Simpson is a local freelance food and travel writer.

Soul food days feature southern cooking at its finest. Meats include fried catfish sandwiches, whole chicken wings and fried pork chops. Side dishes include rice with smoked turkey gravy, mac ‘n cheese, sweet candied yams, collard greens or traditional red beans and rice. Pricing is moderate with one meat and two side dishes priced at $16.

For those who want the combo plate of two meats and two side dishes you can expect to pay $20.

“We wanted to do our rendition of both types of food. Being that our kitchen is so small it makes sense to have two separate menus that work well together with our brand and name,” Chef Sarajevo said.

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AUTUM GINGER PIE • 1/4 cup crystallized ginger, chopped • Whipped cream for topping DIRECTIONS:

By JULIE WHITE

La Mesa has two young natives who have started a pudding company called South & Spoon Pudding Co. Maria Manning and Lauren Benson Button have successfully produced a delicious product that is certified gluten free, Kosher and has no preservatives or additives.

Here is a recipe I came up with that showcases their Salted Brown Sugar Pudding Mix. It is also is available in vanilla, chocolate and lemon.

Mix crust ingredients and press into a pie plate.

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.

Over medium heat, cook pudding as per box instructions and add the chopped ginger.

Pour into cooled crust and refrigerate.

Serve with whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon.

Enjoy chilled!

South & Spoon puddings are available at Valley Farms Market, Iowa Meats, Kiel’s Market in San Carlos, Cardiff Seaside Market and Boneys in Coronado.

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Crust: • 2 cups finely ground gingersnap cookies (I purchased them at Vons ) • 6 tablespoons melted butter • Pinch of cinnamon Filling: • 1 package South and Spoon Salted Brown Sugar Pudding Mix • 2 egg yolks • 1 3/4 cups milk (Almond milk can be substituted.)

Moses White, age 10, holds a ginger pie. (Photo by Julie White)

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EDUCATION Helix Charter High celebrates end of first quarter Oct. 23 – Nov. 27, 2020

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Helix Highlights

By JENNIFER OSBORN

Helix students have completed the first quarter of the 2020-21 school year! Freshmen experienced their first high school finals week, and returning students became more accustomed to finals via Chromebook.

To celebrate being one finals week closer to graduation, the Grade Level Team for the class of 2021 hosted a “Drive-Through Donut” event. Seniors were invited to drive through the school parking lot, where they were

greeted by Helix staff members who handed them, you guessed it, a donut!

Signs provided by Yard Marquee welcomed the students and offered words of encouragement, including “Donut Stop Believing!” This was an opportunity for staff and students to see each other in person, even if just for a moment.

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LEGENDARY COACH RETIRING After 50 years in the Helix basketball program as a player and coach, John Singer is retiring.

He has spent the last 39 years at the helm of one of the most successful programs in the CIF San Diego Section. Under his leadership, his teams won 19 League Championships, four boys CIF Championships, and one girls CIF Championship.

Singer compiled 741 wins with his boys teams and another 200 coaching the girls. In 2017, his team won the CIF Championship, SoCal Regional, and was the State Runner-Up. He leaves as the second most winningest basketball coach in CIF San Diego Section history.

Helix thanks Coach Singer for his service to the student-athletes and wishes him well in retirement.

A MESSAGE FROM HELIX HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION PRESIDENT PAT ALBANESE

Coach John Singer (center) has announced his retirement (Photos courtesy

Helix Charter High School)

Now, more than any other time, the Helix High School Foundation urgently invites you to contribute to our students and their future at Helix as they navigate this “new normal” of physical distancing.

In spite of these new parameters, the resilience and perseverance

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of Helix students continues to be amazing as they acclimate to distance learning and the loss of many familiar day-to-day experiences they would otherwise be having at their school site, surrounded by teachers and friends. As you make your donation, please keep in mind how very much appreciated your support is, especially this 2020-2021 school year.

This past year, the Helix High School Foundation was able to make a tremendous difference in the lives of students by distributing $42,000 in scholarships to 30 diverse and deserving graduating Helix seniors. The Helix High School Foundation has a legacy of 14 years providing Scotties with financial support. In total, we have funded $771,450 in scholarships benefiting 530 students in their post-high school education. The need this year is greater than ever.

The Heli x High School Foundation is a 501c-3 nonprofit whose mission is to raise funds to help students pursue educational opportunities and to support special projects that align with Helix’s educational goals.

Tax deductible donations may be made online at helixhighschoolfoundation.com or by check made out to the Helix Foundation (7323 University Ave, La Mesa, CA 91942). You may also wish to join other alumni who have included us in their estate or trust planning. If you choose this option, we are available to assist you with that process. Thank you in advance for considering the importance of your gift, this year especially, to the Helix High School Foundation.

—Jennifer Osborn writes on behalf of Helix Charter High School.

Oct. 23 – Nov. 27, 2020 EDUCATION La Mesa Courier sdnews.com Grossmont High completes new Event Center building

Foothiller Footsteps

By CONNIE and LYNN BAER

This month, Grossmont High School is excited about the completion of its new Event Center building which includes a 475 seat auditorium, dance studio, choral studios, digital music classroom, and new “black box” theater. The Event Center will also include scene shop classrooms, a green room, dressing rooms, restrooms, and other support spaces. The project emphasizes multi-functionality, with indoor and outdoor learning and gathering spaces. The Event Center will provide a modern new venue for school, district, and community performances, meetings, and events.

Performing Arts Department chair Amity Eckert shares, “We are thrilled! I see us working interdepartmentally to create meaningful and collaborative performances. Students will also now be able to expand their knowledge of technical theatre, particularly with regard to technology so they will have real world experience in a state of the art theatre space.”

Since 1920, Grossmont High School has valued performing arts as an essential part of a student’s education. In April 1921, for two nights, the senior class play “All of a Sudden Peggy” was performed by a cast of 11 students.

Interestingly, one performance was given in Lakeside and one in La Mesa. In its second year, in the spring 1922, two plays were performed, one by juniors and one by seniors. Also, that year, 17 Foothillers enrolled in orchestra and 18 students enrolled in Boys and Girls Glee Club.

Unbelievably, there was a real auditorium and stage in the 1922 original school building, the north wing of the original school. The theater entrance was through the iconic double doors at the front of the school. Located at the end of the hallway, the theater’s stage had an apron with dressing rooms in the back, as well as devices to raise and lower the scenery. There was also a balcony with a projection room for lights.

In 1936, as part of the WPA funded construction on campus, the north wing of the school was demolished and rebuilt as a two-story classroom building with classrooms for English and business, later called the “Old Main.” The new auditorium-gymnasium (now called the Old Gym) was completed in 1937. However, over the next eight decades, it was increasingly obvious that it was more of a gym than a theater, yet large productions such

as the annual Christmas Pageant and musicals took place there, collaborative projects within the Performing Arts Department.

In 1937, drama classes moved to the second floor of the new north wing at the end of the hall, where the space quickly became known as the “Little Theater” with more intimate performances being held there. In 1941, the music building, attached to the back of the Old Gym, was finished. Sometime in the 1940s, the drama department moved into the new building, and the Little Theater continued its role as a home for classes, rehearsals, and performances from “Diary of Anne Frank,” “Hamlet,” “Go Ask Alice” to “Evenings of One Act Plays.” For decades, above the door hung a sign welcoming students to the “Little Theater.” The sign will be displayed as wall art in the new theater as a reminder

of the incredible memories created inside the Little Theater.

Principal Dan Barnes reflects, “I am very proud of our Performing Arts department, one that dates back to our beginning in 1920 and that continues to be a very successful program full of talented people. This beautiful and modern venue will showcase our talented performing arts students. The Events Center provides a state-ofthe-art facility which will bring together our dance, choral, digital music, and drama programs in a central location designed to promote student collaboration and interaction among all our performing arts programs.”

BECOME PART OF OUR HISTORIC CAMPUS In honor of our historic “100 Years of Excellence Celebration,” the GHS Educational Foundation

The 1929 cast of "Riding Down the Sky" in the 1922 GUHS Auditorium

The new Event Center at Grossmont High (Courtesy photos)

is sponsoring a scholarship fundraising program. Donors to the $100 dollars for 100 Years program will have their names, their families’, or their businesses’ names engraved on 2-by-4-inch gray tiles, which will be displayed on a wall near the front of the school.

In June 2020, the Foundation awarded $6,500 in senior scholarships; our goal is to dramatically increase that amount in the future.

Visit the GHS Educational Foundation website at foothillerfoundation.com, and on the “Tile Projects” pages, you may order your tile using the gold donate button. Or write a check payable to GHS Educational Foundation

and mail to GHS Educational Foundation, P.O. Box 1043, La Mesa, CA 91944. On the check memo, please indicate “scholarship fund” and include the text of your tile with your check (up to three lines, 20 spaces each).

To learn more about GHS, past and present, visit the GHS Museum website at foothillermuseum.com. Due to the coronavirus and our continuing move into our larger museum space, the GHS Museum is currently closed, but we are checking our emails at ghsmuseum@guhsd. net and our phone messages at 619-668-6140.

—Connie and Lynn Bare write on behalf of the GHS Museum.

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ordinance,” Tan said, adding that La Mesa will include transitional supportive housing in that ordinance update. “And there will be other types of amendments – the emergency shelters ordinance will be amended to make it more flexible based on new state law. There is also the low-barrier navigation centers that the city will be providing provisions for that is housing for the homeless while they are waiting to be transitioned to permanent housing.”

—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at jeff@sdnews.com.

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CONTINUED FROM Page 1 For more information or to submit questions or topics for event is to foster a dialog on how the panel discussion contact Meg changes due to COVID-19 have Howell at mhowell@cityoflameaffected the everyday lives of fam- sa.us by noon on Oct. 28. ilies. Panelists from the La Mesa Spring Valley School District and the County of San Diego Health SIMPLER PPP FORGIVENESS and Human Services Agency will FOR LOANS UNDER $50,000 be on hand to provide tips and tools.

The U.S. Small Business Families are invited to share their Administration, in consultation experiences on topics such as cop- with the Treasury Department, ing with distance learning, social today released a simpler loan forisolation, returning to the class- giveness application for Paycheck room, and how recent health pol- Protection Program (PPP) loans icies have impacted your daily lives. of $50,000 or less. This action The event is free to watch on streamlines the PPP forgiveness Zoom at zoom.us/j/93872688513 process to provide financial and or listen by phone by calling administrative relief to America’s

smallest businesses while also ensuring sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

“The Paycheck Protection Program has been an overwhelming success and served as a historic lifeline to America’s hurting small businesses and tens of millions of workers. The new form introduced today demonstrates our relentless commitment to using every tool in our toolbelt to help small businesses and the banks that have participated in this program,” said Administrator Jovita Carranza. “We are continuing to ensure that small businesses are supported as they recover.”

SBA and Treasury have also eased the burden on PPP lenders,

allowing lenders to process forgiveness applications more swiftly.

SBA began approving PPP forgiveness applications and remitting forgiveness payments to PPP lenders for PPP borrowers on Oct. 2, 2020. SBA will continue to process all PPP forgiveness applications in an expeditious manner.

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Oct. 23 – Nov. 27, 2020 BOOKS / RECREATION La Mesa Courier sdnews.com Drop off ballot, pick Mission Trails Foundation up book about voting offers new online programs

By DENISE SMITH

The presidential election is currently the focus of the news, social media, and conversations.

The San Diego County Libraries, including the La Mesa Branch, are mail ballot dropof f lo cat ion s.

Although we will not be a polling place this year, we are a place where you can drop off your mail ballot through E l e c t i o n D ay, Nov. 3. Ballots can be dropped off during our current hours, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. On Election Day we will be open to accept ballots 7 a.m.– 8 p.m.

To get yourself and family me m b e r s i nt o the voting spirit, the library has some titles for you to check out.

Tommy Jenkins, a professor in North Carolina, created a history of America’s evolution of voting in “Drawing t he Vot e: A n Illustrated Guide t o Vo t i n g i n America.” Almost a graphic novel of a Wikipedia article, this look s at how ou r count r y’s voting history affects how and why we vote the way we do today.

Events such as the Boston Tea Party, women’s suffrage, and gerrymandering are covered in a way accessible to all readers.

If a fictional election packed full of suspense is more your style, give “Foolproof” by Barbara D’Amato a try. Seven years after the 9/11 attacks, two security firm employees track down global terrorists, which take them to Washington D.C., Italy, Egypt and more while investigating a plot that hopes to rig America’s voting machines and the upcoming presidential election.

“Voting Booth” by Brandy Colbert is a young adult romance that focuses on two teenagers who are voting for the first time.

Marva has volunteered helping people to register to vote and makes it her mission to help Duke find a way to vote when he is turned away at his polling place over a mix-up. Although it may sound like fluff, some heavy issues are covered in this story (race, privilege, family dynamics, civil disobedience, and social justice) that spans a just single, maddash day.

Fo r m i d d l e readers of about th i rd to seve nt h g r ad e s , Jef f Fo s t e r ’s “For Which We Stand: How Our Government Works & Why It Matters” explains the different parts of our government, how it came to be, and how changes in it are made. These topics are entertainingly covered with infographics, charts, caricatures, and maps. This is a well-written and accessible introduction for ch i ld ren who are starting to ask thoughtful questions.

Many young p ic t u r e b o o k readers are familiar with Jonathan London’s character Froggy. His newest title in this character’s journey of learning is “Froggy For President.”

Froggy has decided to run for class president, but so has Frogilina.

They both have ver y d i f ferent plat for m s, but Froggy has confidence in his presidential tie. This series entry, like all of the Froggy books, is sure to bring lots of giggles from your little one.

To put any of these on request give us a call at 619-469-2151 or visit sdcl.org.

—Denise Smith is a librarian at the La Mesa Branch of the San Diego County Library.

By JENNIFER MORRISSEY

The Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) Foundation is pleased to introduce OnTopic, a new series of online programs on topics related to Mission Trails.

Our inaugural programs will be presented by MTRP volunteers and will impart knowledge that we can use as we explore the park and other natural areas. These online events are free of charge, but registration is required. To register, visit the MTRP homepage at mtrp.org.

‘AMAZING WORLD OF BATS, NATURE’S TINY FIGHTER JETS’ 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29 Presented by Don Endicott Bats! Those strange, mysterious creatures of the night. They

Bat (Photo by Don Endicott)

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feature incredible skills of flight and acoustic navigation. Bats contribute to our environment in many ways — catching insects, pollinating wild fruits, and helping reforest disturbed la nds. Poorly understood and frequently feared, they are under Mule deer (Photo by Wendy Esterly) threat worldwide.

Bats need our protection as much Natural History Museum and as we need them in healthy popu- San Diego Humane Society’s Bat lations. During this multi-media Team. Don is co-author of “50 presentation, Don will demon- Best Short Hikes San Diego” with strate how we record and identi- the late Jerry Schad. fy their ultrasonic echolocation calls used to navigate and find GETTING THE MOST FROM INAT prey in complete darkness.

A retired research engi6p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5 Presented by Millie Basden neer and execLearn how to be a more active utive i n Nav y Communications participant in iNaturalist (iNAT) and N e t w o r k while improving the quality of Technologies, Don your observations and identidiscovered a second fications. The goals of this precareer as a volun- sentation are to encourage more teer naturalist. He active participation in iNaturalis a NAI Certified ist, increase participation in app Interpretive Guide, projects (Mission Trails Regional MTRP Trail Guide, Park Biodiversity Project, San and public educator for the San Diego SEE MTRPF, Page 18

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Applicants may qualify for one to three months of assistance for past due rent for a maximum amount of $5,000. Assistance may cover past due balances for rent beginning no earlier than March 1, 2020.

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